What color do you love seeing on others but don’t feel like you can wear? Share!
Yellow/mustard-y yellows!
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Light pink or baby pink. Just doesn’t work for me.
Super nude lip colors. It’s probably because of my skin tone but I cannot wear colors like MAC Myth and anything in that range because they completely drain my face!
orange/coral/red orange lipstics they just make my teeth look yellow 🙁 ! And black eyeliner in my bottom water line, it just closes my eye and my eyes are already dark so it’s just so much black and not cute lol
Nude lipcolors–they almost always give me zombie lips.
yellows and salmon/coral coloured clothing I just can’t make work lol!
Pink esp pink lipstick
Certain shades of purple. It’s not so much that I feel I can’t wear it, rather than I’m not a fan of it personally, though I can see if it looks great on others.
Chartruese which to me is a yellow green. There is a lot of it around this summer in Australia.
Corals and oranges! All those beautiful summery lip colors… it just kills me. My skin sadly clashes with them somehow.
Emerald green! I always end up feeling like I’m at a fancy dress party. On others, I love it – really makes eye colour pop.
the shades in tom ford’s cognac sable quad
Its mostly pastel blue, pinks and green.. They look horrible on me.. 😛
Yellow, especially with green in it – so the greeny mustards, chartreuse and highlighter/neon yellow T_T
A dark smokey eye.. I feel like it makes me look like a raccoon because I have light eyes. On other people with light eyes it doesn’t seem to have that effect. Also a red lip. I LOVE how a red lip looks. It just does something to you’re face that makes it look so beautiful and I love it on other women and myself, I just feel like it’s too bold for me to actually leave my house with red lipstick lol
Blue eyeshadows and brown/tan blushes.
I have a really hard time pulling of nude lips :/
Shandi Messmer / The Bronzed and The Beautiful
olive greens with gold
Christine, whether by using other colors in the look or by adding a liner, you have totally rocked yellows, especially mustardy yellows. So along with that, whether this is meant as a singular color we envy, or a color to wear in general, I think you’re a great example at showing people that there is a way for everyone to wear every color, adapting and being able to pull it off somehow. Hence, no matter the color I may think I can’t pull off but love seeing on others, I’m sure there are ways to make it work. Thank you for that. 🙂
Dark lipsticks for sure. I can wear down to about a cherry red and then I look washed out and kind of like a vampire.
Blues and corals.
Pastels.
Aqua green! It just makes my skin look so yellow-green, very unflattering 🙁
Bright pink lipstick. I feel silly and wipe it right off when I try it but i love the look on others.
Red lipsticks…I’m a nude girl. I’ll sometimes venture out and wear plums and deeper pinks but that’s it (at least for now).
Blue eyeshadow. However, when I get my Nars dual intensity (?) Palette I fully intend on making that blue work.
Bright blushes– reds, bright pinks.
Anything orange.
I can’t pull either of these off at all. x.x
Matte taupe eye shadows! They look ashy on my NW48 skin.
TEAL!!!!!!!!!!!
I knewww you were going to say this!!
Pastel pink lipsticks! Also matte lipsticks. My lips are too dry for that trend!
Black eyeliner — it’s just too severe for my coloring.
Silvers and grays.
Grey and silver. I’ll wear pretty much any other colours but them.
Colors in the extreme end of the warm spectrum so reds, oranges, golds, and coppers. They either make me look ill (the red tones) or clash so much that they muddy up my complexion. I’ll still wear orange lipstick, but never an eyeshadow.
Yellow golds, really stark silvers, and blue eyeshadow. They just don’t agree with me.
Pink lipstick and blush. I feel like I clown when I wear pink. I tend to stick to mauve and berry-tones instead.
Bright ORANGE orange and warm toned nude lips.
Red and pink eyeshadow, baby pink lipstick
Definitely mustard yelllows. In makeup I can pull it off in small quantities on my eyes (a pop of yellow liner, yellow on the inner corners in a high-intensity bright look, etc). But in clothing I can’t at all. It is very unflattering on me and one of few colors that makes my very neutral skin look sallow. Muted yellows are fine on me, but seeing bright and mustardy yellows in cool places like a winter jacket makes me sad I can’t rock it.
I can make pretty much any eye product work, so it’s really a matter of what I prefer, and how much effort I’m willing to put into a look. That said, warm browns/golds/coppers/oranges/bronzes are the most difficult to work with, followed by pastels. However, using complementary colors with warmer tones, and deeper colors with pastels, I’ve found ways around it, although I rarely go out of my way to purchase them.
Complexion/base products are another story… Pinky-red blushes just make me look wind-/sun-burned, and peachy/coral shades just look awkward. The same goes for lip products in this range, although I don’t find them to be particularly flattering on most who wear them…
i’ll agree with you on yellow, though i’ve never really tried it on myself-i just think it would look bad:)
There are a few… Orange lipsticks, beige, concealer-like nude lipskicks and light pastel pink lipsticks i.e MAC’s St Germain and sadly, MAC’s Candy Yum Yum.
Coral and orangey red listick.
Coral!!! It looks so beautiful on my favorite beauty bloggers, but it makes me look sickly!!
Red or fuscia lipsticks look terrible on me. Only nude and pink lips work for me. But to be honest, I don’t feel like red or purply/pink lips are ever MORE flattering than a natural lip on anyone. It makes everyones eyes look small/plain.
Most orange lipsticks make my teeth look yellow. The exceptions are the Orange Blossom and Citron from Nyx’s Macaron lippies, which totally should not work based on my history with similar colors. Yet they totally work and make my teeth look whiter. I would love to be able to wear a bright orange. 🙁 I can usually pull off corals and peaches, thank goodness.
Beige, matte nude lips a la Jennifer Lopez and Kim Kardashian.
Other than those, I think I can pull off everything else with my coloring. A lot of working with colors you like, but don’t find flattering, is where on your face and how you use them. A little bit worked in with colors you do find flattering is often the key.
I have relatively warm toned skin, a bit yellow, and green eyes. So needless to say some blues and silvers (extreme cool end) look awful. Worse than awful. Just terrible, really! And any really cool-toned pink lipstick is equally terrible. Especially if it’s really bright or bold (think fuchsia, baby pinks), and then it just makes my skin look yellow and my mouth look tiny. Yeah, not a pretty look!!
It depends on my skin tone, really. On my tan-less skin warm toned blush looks unnatural, for example.
Bold, blue pinks like MAC’s St.Germain or Maybelline’s Pink Pop (vivid). Orange-y reds also don’t look very good on me because of my fair, cool skin.
I always have trouble wearing light lip colors – I feel like it’s weird to have my lips be lighter than the color they naturally are!
Certain shades of blue and pink- light/ baby blue and hot pink specifically. I think I look better in navy and some lighter shades pink, maybe leaner more towards coral. My best colors are darker reds/purples wine/burgundy!
Black lipstick!
Lavender lips! Love them but they don’t work on me. Also dark colored nail polish. And orange clothes. Just bought an orange MK shirt and felt like a pumpkin
White
Coral and lighter pink lipsticks! Colors that are are often recommenced for fairer skin tones usually don’t work on me despite being very fair
pinks in general 🙁
Green eye-shadow or liner!! Lovely on others, makes me look sick or cheap!
Coral! I’m extremely cool toned, but still own Estee Lauder’s Nectarine lipstick.
I need soft colors but love bright and dark lips on others
Yellows and greens!
Well Yellow is the case with me as well but Green… hahah wow thats so weird lols. Green is too much i believe.. yet, i know some people love it 🙂
Bright Coral lips always catch my eye! I think when carefully done, coral lips look so beautiful on a woman. I’ve also noticed there is such a range in corals that women with either warm or cool tone skin can wear them beautifully. After careful searching and a couple of opinions from beauty counter sales associates, I selected a mid to bright tone coral which I had swabbed on quickly with a q-tip offered by the SA.
After I got home, I put the lipstick on very carefully and I looked AWFUL in it. I went back to Macy’s and bought the other tube I was considering, brought it home, tried it on and looked even WORSE! Fortunately, Macy’s has a generous return policy, so I wasn’t out the cash, but remaned very disappointed.
Red base purples on their own, I really have the balance them out with something otherwise I look like my eye are swollen. O__o
Brown based nude lipstick….. I look dead in them.
Also 80-90’s purple shadows looks…. They just soo dated on me and the feel dated to me. “Can use blue anymore so lets only use purples.” lol
Coral and orange- they clash with my greenish undertones.
Dark and cooltoned purple and blue eyeshadows. I’m pretty pale and they inevitably make me look tired and sallow no mater how much undereye concealer I wear.
Taupe!
Also nude or other pale lips, or anything too brown – makes me look dead, lol.
Golds and bronzes. I love those colors but they never work on me.
Nude lips and nails!! People are always raving about the newest nude lipstick. Love it on magazines and some celebrities but when I have tried it myself, it just doesn’t look like me. I have a yellow undertone and probably I have not found the right nude for me, at least that’s what I like to think. My go to colors are mainly reds and oranges, sometimes a hot pink. When I do a nude lip, I looked like death warmed over. Same thing with my nails.
Reds!!! Does not look good on me but great on others..
Baby pink makeup dislikes me.
deep red lipstick….I love it, but, don’t wear it.
Nude lips and smokey eyes
I can’t really wear purples – they look great on others, but not on me.
As for nude lips – many cannot wear that because it drains the colour from their faces.
Turquoise and other blues. Having blue eyes is the problem.
Any kind of purpley lipstick!
Olives and old golds. I feel like they should work on me in theory but they just make my eye area look sallow and bruised. And lipsticks with any orange in them including corals, I can wear the brightest blue pink with ease but oranges look so garish to me.
Red! Red lipstick! I love it – always have and I look ridiculous wearing it so I don’t.
Purple, wine and brown red lippies. I loke old when I wear them 🙁
The radiant orchid (super light purply-pink) type of color. It should work since I’m a pale cool-toned blonde, but I just don’t like it :/
Red lipstick. Some are too bright. Some are too intense. Some are both bright and intense and also
just wild looking. It’s not for me. The only thing I’ll come close to a red lipstick is a reddish brown with brown undertones. It suits me well than just a standard red lip.
Red or bright pink lipstick.
peaches and corals. They can look so great on others but clash with my pale olive skin and grey eyes.
Cool toned and taupe eyeshadows. I look like the sister of Tutankhamun, in the mummy version of course!
Pastels and I have yet to find anything yellow that looks good on me, whether it’s make up or clothing.
Red lipsticks
Pale pinks! I’ve seen people with skin tones similar to my own ROCK them, but I just look terrible whenever I give them a try.
One day though…
Silvers!
Thick eyeliner! My hooded lids do not agree with that choice, no matter how hard I will them to cooperate.
baby pink and blue! i love both so much but they suit very very very bad on me!
True red. It looks so gorgeous on other people, but it looks terrible on me. I have to wear almost-red pinks, and dark purpley reds.
Pink lipstick, of just about any shade, especially the lighter ones. Although, I recently got the NYX lip cream in San Paulo, which turned out pinker on me than I was expecting from swatches and the tube color, but I’ve found that wearing it thinly, with a fairly neutral face, it works, so maybe there’s hope.
Black eyeliner!!! It makes me look instantly trashy, and in a bad way. My most common non-neutral face is “rocker chic,” but I absolutely cannot do the obligatory black eyeliner. I can surround my eyes with a 1/4″ wide line of brown-black and look fierce — pure black makes me look like I’m peddling rooms rented by the hour. But … it looks so amazing on others!
Pastel anything! Bluuurgh!
Oh, and cool greens. I can imagine making some amazing looks with those shades, and I’ve seen some in person, but I’ve never been able to make them work for me.
I can’t wear any shade of yellow, no yellow eyeshadow, no yellow clothing; it makes me look dead.
Purple lips, it looks so beautiful on so many people but on me it really doesn’t work (but that doesn’t mean I won’t keep trying).
True nude or pastel pink lips! As a fair-skinned blonde person, I always feel like I ridiculous when I wear them, even if I like how they look on others with similar coloring :/ I just am always scared of looking washed out or having my lips look too pale, I’m a browny-nude girl for sure.